Cruiseport Gloucester Construction Update 8/14/08

Happy Birthday Trisha Sanford

Today is Trisha Sanborn (owner of Bubbles on Main Street in Downtown Gloucester), 25th birthday.  If you happen to be downtown today or tonight for the Downtown Block Party make sure you stop by her shop to wish her a happy 25th birthday.

It’s All Good When You’re Rockin’ A GMG Sticker

What a nice smile!  Someone is truly happy.

Cruiseport Gloucester Construction Update 8/14/08

Check out the entire windowed front of the Cruiseport building.  These doors swing open to the huge deck.

Cruiseport Gloucester Construction Update 8/14/08

Here is the beautiful hand crafted wood bar at Cruiseport under construction.

Fishermen Tattoos-Shawn Cromwell

Click any photo and select “all sizes” to view in full size

Beautiful Industry -B & N Fishing Gear Removable Chain Links

This type of chain links you can put together just right to add links together and take them apart when you need strength but to be able to disassemble the chain.

Beautiful Industry- Rose’s Marine Oil Tanks

Beautiful Industry- Rose’s Marine Oil Tanks

Beautiful Industry- B & N Fishing Gear Shackles

B & N Fishing Gear, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Gloucester Seafood Display Auction 4:50AM 8/8/08

Not Your Father’s Chuck Taylor’s

Downtown, a kid was wearing these Chuck Taylors.  I wonder if the creators way back when ever imagined that they would be stylized this way?  Very Ed Hardy.

North Face Apparel At Seasons On Main St

Where The Locals Go

While passing out Downtown Block Party flyers yesterday I happened to stop by Seasons On Main Street. What I didn’t realize was some of the different lines that she carries there. One major brand that you all might recognize is North Face.

Seasons On Main offers two pretty valuable Where The Locals Go coupon book coupons. One is for 20% off any single full priced item. Another coupon is for 25% off any three full priced items. That’s pretty significant savings for buying a $10 Where The Locals Go Coupon book that is filled with hundreds of other money saving coupons.

Cruiseport Construction Update 8/2/08

New railings and glass for the new section of Cruiseport Gloucester

Cruiseport Construction Update 8/2/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Locals Insider Tip- Request Outdoor Reservations NOW!

With the Downtown Gloucester Block Party approved by the city council, we will have outdoor dining and drinking on Main Street the night of August 16th. There will be live music and dancing and we are working on a spectacular slide show.

If I were you I’d call The Frankin, Passports, La Trattoria, Dogbar, Jalepenos, Valentino’s or The Elliott and request outdoor reservations for that night. If they tell you they are not accepting reservations for outdoors that night then politely say thanks anyway and call the next place on the list. I think it’s going to be spectacular and a lot of fun and hopefully the blueprint for having this type of event become a regular part of the Downtown scene.

Here are the telephone numbers-

The Franklin-978.283.7888

Passports-978.281.3680

La Trattoria- 978.281.0790

Dogbar- 978.281.6565

Valentino’s- 978.283.6186

Elliott’s at The Blackburn 978.282.1919

Get dialing

Downtown Gloucester Block Party
Downtown Gloucester Block Party

Pavillion Beach Leading To Stacey Boulevard

Here is the view of Pavillion Beach from the parking lot at the Chamber of Commerce looking toward Stacey Boulevard.

Pavillion Beach In Front of Proposed Marriott Site

Here is the Pavillion Beach, totally underutilized compared to Good Harbor and Wingersheek Beach. The white building to the left in the photo is the site for the proposed Marriott Hotel.

Filling Herring Totes

This is how they sometimes fill the herring totes at Cape Sea Foods on the State Fish Pier. They line them up in a long row and use a rotator on the forks of the fork truck to tip the 1500lb vats of herring on it’s side.

The herring then spills out of the vat and as each tote gets filled the fork truck operator continues in reverse filling the next empty ones in the row until they are all filled.

Then they stack empty totes on top of the ones they just filled with herring until they get four totes high all they way down the line. Once they have all the totes filled and stacked four high they slide the forks of the fork truck under the stacks and lift them onto pallets where they will hold 12 totes per pallet (3 stacks of 4) and shrink wrap them so they won’t slide off during transportation.

Filling Herring Totes, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Environmental Police Boat Hauled Out At Rose’s 4:50AM 8/6/08